By the Book of Judges, the biblical depiction of Esau settles on permanent antagonism, and in the main, the rabbinic and medieval traditions dig in against him. Esau and Jacob (and their ...

The earliest midrashic commentaries on the story of Jacob and Esau portray Esau as thoroughly ... Harry Freedman’s 2014 book The Talmud: A Biography is now available in paperback on Amazon.

determined to kill Jacob in revenge. Out of consideration for his father, Esau would wait until Isaac died. I have always been a great fan of and promoter of Esau. My book, “Esau’s Blessing ...

The story of Jacob’s surreptitious acquisition of the blessings his father intended for Esau is well known. This episode, coupled with the Torah’s declaration of Isaac’s love for Esau ...

The Book of Genesis is replete with sibling rivalry: Cain and Abel, Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau; all struggle with each other in different ways. Cain murders Abel in the first murder in ...

They name him “Hairy.” Then, just a few verses later, Esau’s twin brother Jacob is making a red lentil stew, and Esau asks for some of that red stuff to gulp down. The scripture then tells ...